Blogging Software and Communities

Blogware is the software that makes publishing a blog drop-dead-simple. Once installed on a web server, the website content is managed via a web browser. This eliminates (or minimizes) the need for an author to know HTML.

People who have technical skill and administrator access to a web server may wish to install and manage blogware. Popular software that you can run on your own site includes MoveableType and WordPress.

People who do not have this skill or who wish to blog in a web community may prefer setting up their blog on a hosted site. There are varying costs associated with these communities. All allow some customization of the look of the blog. Some allow photos to be hosted, some don’t. Most allow you to have your domain name point to your blog. Most free hosts require larger files — audio or video — to be hosted elsewhere.

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Kathy On Politics

From 2004-2009 I wrote about politics at About.com. Today I write about politics at TheModerateVoice.com. Public policy issues around technology start here, at WiredPen. Here's a page with my political posts, reverse-chronologically ordered by headline.

365 Project

I launched a 365 (photo a day) project on my birthday in 2010. The theme, in the main, was "iPhone as camera." The first week's postings were made here, then I moved the site to kegill.com; I'm finally using the domain!